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THE FACULTY AND THEIR RESEARCH

Linda D. Hazlett	Professor & Chair; Ph.D.	Ocular inflammation: morphological, immunological, and molecular analysis of corneal inflammation, with emphasis on infectious disease.
D. Randall Armant	Professor; Ph.D.	Embryology: intrauterine blastocyst implantation; trophoblast differentiation in response to growth factors and extracellular matrix; integrin-mediated adhesion and signaling; alcohol-induced birth defects during gastrulation; regulation of embryonic cell proliferation and apoptosis.
Mihir Bagchi	Associate Professor; Ph.D.	Cell biology: morphology and biochemistry of ocular lens, in normal and diseased state.
Marc D. Basson	Professor; MD, Ph.D.	Epithelial cell migration, gut mucosal wound healing and adaptation, cell-matrix interactions and physical force effects, cell signaling, cell adhesion, proliferation, and tumor metastasis.
Bruce A. Berkowitz	Professor; Ph.D.	Neuroscience and cell biology: triggering factors and modulators of retinal angiogenesis; development and application of magnetic resonance imaging methods to measure retinal blood flow and oxygenation; blood-retinal barrier disruption in human and experimental subjects.
Rodney Braun	Associate Professor; Ph.D.	Mass transport in biological tissues; study of blood flow and oxygen transport in retina; development of methods to alter blood flow and oxygen levels in tumors, particularly in choroidal melanoma.
William J. Crossland	Associate Professor; Ph.D.	Developmental neurobiology: the formation and maintenance of developing neural connections in the avian and mammalian nervous systems.
Dennis J. Goebel	Associate Professor; Ph.D.	Neuroscience and molecular neurobiology: neurochemical and receptor interactions in the mammalian retina.
Morris Goodman	Professor; Ph.D.	Molecular biology: molecular evolution at the gene level, concentrating on primates and mammals; developmental switching of embryonic and fetal hemoglobin genes in man and primates.
Harry G. Goshgarian	Professor; Ph.D.	Neuroscience: spinal cord injury, functional recovery, plasticity, physiology, pharmacology, molecular biology and clinical studies.
Xi Huang	Assistant Professor; Ph.D.	Bacterial infection and ocular immunology: role of Toll-like receptor and Triggering receptors expression on myeloid cells in bacterial keratitis and ocular inflammation.
Avril Genene Holt	Assistant Professor; Ph.D.	Adult auditory brainstem plasticity (morphological, protein or molecular) resulting from deafness and deafness related conditions such as tinnitus and presbyacusis with a focus on classical transmitters and ion channels.
Mark E. Ireland	Associate Professor; Ph.D.	Cell biology: role of the cytoskeleton in establishing lens transparency, receptor-mediated intracellular signaling cascades directing differentiation-specific gene and protein expression.
Renu A. Kowluru	Professor; Ph.D.	Diabetic retinopathy: biochemical and molecular mechanisms in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy, with emphasis on oxidative stress and inflammation.
Harry Maisel	Professor; M.B., Ch.B.	Embryology: morphological, biochemical, and immunological analysis of lens cell differentiation, with emphasis on membrane and cytoskeleton; congenital malformations in man.
Nancy O'Sullivan	Assistant Professor ( Research ); Ph.D.	Immunobiology of the ocular and oral compartments. These include lymphocyte subpopulations and their interactions with the epithelia at these sites.
Zhuo-Hua Pan	Professor; Ph.D.	Visual information processing in the retina; development of therapeutic strategies for the treatment of blinding retinal degeneration.
Jean D. Peduzzi-Nelson	Associate Professor; Ph.D.	Neuroscience: translation research aimed at the development and evaluation of treatments for chronic severe spinal cord injury and head injury using adult stem cells, OEC, matrix, and targeted gene therapy.
Jose A. Rafols	Professor; Ph.D.	Neuroscience: age-related neuronal plasticity in the basa l ganglia; injury-induced plasticity in the spinal cord; neural transplantation.
Pukhrambam Lalit Singh	Assistant Professor; Ph.D.	Microvascular complications of the eyes and kidney in Diabetes: Oxidative stress, hexosamine pathway flux and extracellular matrix/adhesion molecule expression; Growth factors and signal transduction; Genomics and proteomics-based biomarker identification.
Robert P. Skoff	Professor; Ph.D.	Developmental neuroscience: development of glial cells in central nervous system, using in situ and in vitro methodologies; myelin-deficient mutants as models for the study of multiple sclerosis.
Andrei V. Tkatchenko	Assistant Professor; MD, Ph.D.	Developmental biology: genetic control of embryonic and postnatal eye development. Role of visual input in postnatal eye development and eye plasticity.
Paul D. Walker	Professor; Ph.D.	Neuroscience- neurotransmitter interactions in the basal ganglia as related to movement disorders (e.g. Parkinson's disease).
Fu-Shin X. Yu	Professor; Ph.D.	Molecular regulation of corneal wound healing. Toll-like receptors in corneal innate immunity against bacterial infection.

EMERITUS AND RETIREES: M LANDE; D MEYER; J MITCHELL; R POURCHO (EMERITUS PROFESSOR)